The original post: /r/television by /u/AkiraTheMetalHead on 2026-04-25 16:08:39+00:00.

I’ll be honest, I loved this show up until the 1st half of season 3. But the 2nd half just lazily undid most of the character development of the series just to force a pseudo reset. And thus I gave up on the series. But this month I was bored and did check out the whole of season 4 and then I realized that the whole reason why i stayed for all 8 eps is because I kept expecting more to happen, but it really doesn’t. It’s just a few good action and character scenes, followed by huge scenes of filler. Then there’s the lazy writing, Neuman could’ve killed the sheeps, she didn’t because plot. Vaught knew where The Boys head office is this whole time, I thought they didn’t, but only chose to attack it now? Seriously? What’s with Annie not beating Deep’s head in?

Oh and speaking of Annie, girl your man was SA’d by someone that looks like you and treating it as if it was him cheating on you is wrong. To me that makes Starlight look like the person Firecracker makes her out to be when they had their conversation at Vaught tower. That whole post Doppelganger interaction between Starlight and Hughie just felt gross. And I’m a person that loves gore and raunchy humor and isn’t grossed out by either so when I say something is gross it has allot of weight. I’m so sick and tired of male SA being treated and either nothing or someone cheating. Hughie should’ve pointed out that he was SA’d and be angry with Annie for being a typical CW series stereotype. Both of them should’ve realized both were victims, Hughie way more than Annie and should’ve worked on healing together but that’s too much to ask from this show. I also read the show runners defending the various Hughie SA. So gross.

Anyways that was the final nail in the coffin for me. Not gonna check out season 5 as I assume the writing is gonna get lazier and I really don’t like supporting shows that treat SA of any kind like the way they did in this show.